Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bravo! Maybe some of those 80-hour-a-week fathers will see that killing themselves to earn enough money to "give the kids everything" is in effect shortchanging them. If your excellent article doesn't scare the pants off them, maybe it will scare them into wearing them...
While the pace of church merger is still tortoise-slow, there is no slackening in the trend toward union among the nation's seminaries. This month, sev en schools in the Boston area* an nounced the creation of the Boston Theological Institute, which in effect is nothing less than an interdenominational theological university. Although the seven member schools will maintain their individual identity, students at any one of the seminaries will be able to en roll in courses at the other six. By pooling their resources, the institutions, which have a total enrollment of 1,500, will be able...
...State Department and the Pentagon-continues to be prosecution of the war rather than formulation of terms for peace. As far as public priorities are concerned, this is logical enough; what private thoughts the Administration has about a settlement should remain private until they can be used for practical effect. But since the war quite possibly will end by negotiation, the U.S. had better have clearly in mind the maximum goals that it aims for and the minimum terms it will settle...
...Coalition of Ideas. For Britain, things do not promise to improve any time soon. The National Institute of Economic and Social Research esti mates that at best the effects of devaluation will improve Britain's balance of payments by only $156 million in 1968; not until late in 1969 can it expect to turn smartly into the black. Meantime, domestic food prices have risen 3.8% since devaluation and will rise 5% to 15% after the first of the year. The powerful Trades Union Council still insists that it will seek a wage rise of an average $1.68 a week...
...better than Harvard's, nor that the Crimson can't compete with an all-Canadian squad, but many have been sucking sour grapes for some time over Big Red Coach Ned Harkness's recruiting tactics. Probably prompted by this discontent, the ECAC last week adopted a rule previously in effect for NCAA championships: any foreigner attending college here loses a year of varsity eligibility for each year he has competed in his own country over...